European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 06, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 6, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 3 new commander Baff a Fon of Grafe Wohr Grafen Wihr Germany is it. Col. Russell b. Hall took command of the 409th base support in at Grafe Wohr in a ceremony wednesday afternoon. He replaced it. Col. David j. Ozolek who had been the commander since the battalion was activated in october 1991. Ozolek will become director of army ranges and targe try at fort Eustis a. Hall comes to Grafe Wohr from fort leaven Worth kan., where he was executive officer of the training and doctrine Cpd Center and the analysis Center. Hall a native of new Mexico and his wife Alexia Are accompanied by their daughter Rachel. Grafe Wohr was selected by the department of the army As the Best overseas Small Community in the 1993 army communities of Excel Lence Competition. It also received the . Army Europe s Best of the Best award this year. Army intending to play by Quality of life rules luncheon at Patch club to observe women s Day Stuttgart Germany is a luncheon is scheduled for aug. 26 at the Patch no club to commemorate women s Equality Day. Janice Scott chief of the government services Agency in Stuttgart will be the guest speaker at the lunch Eon scheduled from 11 . To 1 . Tickets Cost $10. Free bus transportation will be provided to the club in the Vaihinger Section of Stuttgart. For information Call Dan 421-2892 or civilian 0711 729-2892. Heidelberg civilian died of heart attack in Las vegas Heidelberg Germany is the army civil Ian employee from the Heidelberg Community who died sunday in Las vegas suffered a heart attack a spokesman said. Wayne Chester Michael Lucas was on a four week temporary duty assignment attending the club management operations executive course said Michael s. Mowrer a spokesman from the 26th area support group in Heidelberg. Book will spell out benefits for troops Usa eur Deputy says by Vince  writer Heidelberg Germany the army in Europe is writing a Quality Osife Rule Book that will make com Manders and Bud Geters answerable to their soldiers a top general  some Point in time you be got to Stop slicing Salami and Start making some prioritization it. Gen. Daniel r. Schroeder Deputy commander of the . Army Europe said of the troop cuts and overseas base closings that have rocked soldiers lives in recent  have said frequently that convenience is going to change. The Point Wilwant to make sure of is that the standards for Quality of life Are Well understood measurable so that we can hold ourselves accountable and clearly articulated so that our soldiers and our fam Ilies know what to  project should be finished by the end of october and includes a top to Bottom review of services and programs As Well As lengthy and very specific definitions of what soldiers should expect while stationed in Europe Schroeder said. The definitions and numbers could also be used a ammunition during military budget Battles. Schroeder stopped Short of calling the new project a Bill of rights for Quality of life. But he did say that the work was seminal and that in recent weeks army leaders from around the world have visited the army in Europe s Headquarters in Heidelberg to see the pro Gram i this is not a trivial thing Schroeder said. The project is defining precisely what kinds of serv ices soldiers should expect from the army As Well As what the costs and Quality Levels would be. The intent would be. To hold ourselves account Able and to behave the Way we said we were going to behave Schroeder  example the Quality of life Book would say that soldiers and families Are entitled to a certain sized Library within a certain distance of their Homes with reasonable defined hours. It would also contain data on the Cost in manpower and dollars to run such  detailed entries Are being written in pain Ful detail to define medical care dining facilities and Salesman $3,900 missing from Ford Dealership in Fulda by Mark k1nkadestaff writer a car Salesman and $3,900 in Down payments Are missing from a car sales off ice in Fulda Germany and German Ford representatives want to know if the two Are connected. Ford officials wednesday completed a review of car deals made Between Salesman Patrick Mcentee and americans stationed at Downs Barracks in Fulda,1 a company official said. Mcentee sold Fords through the army and air Force Exchange service s new car sales program. Nei Dormair Reich Ford Dealership in Munich has a con tract with the Exchange service to act As an agent in the car sales program. When Mcentee did t show up for work two weeks ago customers began calling about car orders a Nei Dormair Reich spokeswoman  sounds like the same old Story said Carol Seiber. A Salesman takes the Down payments and leaves the customer waiting for the  staff sgt. Melyin Henderson assigned to the Lith army Cav regt in Fulda contacted cafes and Ford after failing to reach Mcentee. One of the first Ameri cans to query the companies about Mcentee Hender son Learned that an order had never been placed for the Ford Aerostat Van he thought had been ordered june 22.after Henderson complained Mcentee s desk at his Downs Barracks office was seized and All paperwork in the desk was searched. Three Money orders from Henderson totalling $1,762 were found in the desk and returned to the Soldier said Manfred Tomberger manager of military car sales for Ford in Germany. The Money orders were part of Hen Derson s Down payment for his Van which he planned to pick up in the United states this month. Henderson said he paid Mcentee a Down payment of $2,062 in four Money orders. The fourth Money order was t recovered when Ford searched the desk he said. Ford said the company will refund the missing $300. The rest of the missing Money was from other custom ers. There is a possibility that some customers won t be Able to pick up cars they ordered on the dates they were promised an Exchange service official said. For example if a car was ordered in the past month and Mcentee did t submit the work order to Ford then the car has t been built said Helmuth Laetsch who manages the cafes car sales program. Laetsch said he has received Calls from other custom ers concerned about their car orders. We want to make sure our customers Are taken care of Laetsch said. We will make sure they either get their car i their Money Back if they were a victim in this  Tomberger also said that either All missing Dow payments would be refunded or car orders would be processed although customers might have to reorder their cars. Every aspect of no train ing activities that we re involved in Schroeder said. Budget Battles arc an increasing part of military management. So figuring out the Cost to provide Quality of life services is a main goal of the project Schroeder said. Precisely defining Quality of life services would eliminate budget debates that begin with you pc Schroeder got four people too Many. Start slicing Salami again Schroeder said. If you can equate your manpower into dollars through our base operations or Quality of life standards that everybody s agreed to then the minute you Tell me to take those four spaces out. My question Back to you is of what do you want me to Stop doing Schroeder said. Such data already exist for military missions and training. For instance the army expects its tank battalions to have about so tanks and it expects each tank to have a Crew of four people. So cutting four people from a combat battalion might mean eliminating a tank Crew. If figures Are compiled army wide or for All the serv ices then it would put us in a better position to Dis cuss Quality of life with members of Congress Schroc Der said. In the example of libraries it might be relatively easy to close a Library in the United states if soldiers and families had Access to a nearby off base Library. However if you look at a Schaffenburg or Wiir Burg or Worms or Mannheim All troop towns in Germany and you close one of those libraries what s the alternative for the High school kids there Schroeder said. The Quality of life project would raise a red Flag by warning would be Library closers that they were Violat ing an army Standard. It would also Force budget cutters to decide which services to do away with rather than just dictating amounts of Money to Cut. Number of refugees drops in Germany but is still too High Frankfurt Germany a despite a new Law aimed at curbing the influx of refugees about 20,000 people applied for political Asylum in Germany last month officials said thursday. That was a drop of one third compared with june the last month that Germany accepted any one claiming to be politically oppressed. The number of Asylum seekers registered in july is still too High the Interior ministry said in a statement. It said the effectiveness of the new Law should not be measured on figures for one month alone. The ministry said the july figures probably in clude people who arrived in Germany just before the Law took effect and those who crossed the Border illegally and registered themselves in july. Conservative politicians say the country s Rise in Neo nazi violence is in part a backlash to the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have poured into Germany from Eastern Europe and Africa in the last few years. Critics counter by saying Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Center right coalition is using the refugee Issue to further its own conservative goals. On july 1, Germany severely restricted its Asylum Law that had been Amon the most Liberal in the world